Tonight I decided to dive into why the protective post that sits next to the yellow visor target was so loose on my playfield. The post didn’t look like a stock post and it would not turn. I could not see a way to remove it. There was a decent sized hole in the playfield that looked like the post had been wiggling back and forth as it was hit. I removed enough of the visor target assembly to get a look at it from the back side of the playfield and it appears to me that a prior “fix” had been put in place when a tee nut broke or was lost. It looks like they welded or riveted the post to a piece of metal and then screwed that metal into the playfield. Interesting solution.
I took a new tee nut, cut off one side so the visor targets would clear, threaded a new post and washer though and secured the nut. After checking again for visor post clearance I put a small amount of epoxy on the outside edge of the tee nut to hold it in place so the post can be removed as usual in the future. Hopefully this will be a better solution to the problem and stop the wear on the playfield hole.
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